AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1929, Page 5

AVIATION

TRANS-PACIFIC FLIGHT

AMERICANS’ NON-STOP PROJECT

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WASHINGTON, April 3

A ,message from Tacoma (Washington) states that a mm-stop flight between Tacoma and Tokio, as soon as the wind and weather are suitable. was announced to-day by Lieutenant Harold Bromley, of Tacoma, a"d a group of Tacoma capitalists, who are financing tlq> venture. Lieutenant Bromley is going to Los Angeles to supervise the completion of a Lockhend Vega monoplane, designed for Sir H. Wilkins' Antarctc expedition. which lias been purchased.

BROMLEY’S ARRANGEMENTS

WASHINGTON. April 3

Regarding the Tacoma message as to tlu* transpacific flight. Bromley is a native of Victoria, British Columbia, and is 29 years of age. He served with the Canadian forces overseas and ihe Royal Air Force. He has-had one thousand hours flying, and is a qualified navigator and radio operator, He will instal a motor capable of doing one bundled and fifty miles an hour, thus cutting the flying time down to thirty-five hours for the 4700 miles, and thereby leaving a safe margin of one thousand miles. _ He will carry radio, the same apparatus that Martin Jensen used on his Polar flight, and lie will fly solo.

AIR LINER’S JOURNEY

(Received this dav at 11.25. a.m.) BAGHDAD, April 4.

The air liner. “City of Jerusalem,” carrying Lundon-lndia mails anived from Gaza and re-started for Bus rah, but was forced to return owing to a heavy sandstorm.